The University of Oxford partnered with the British-Swedish company AstraZeneca to develop and test a coronavirus vaccine known as ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 or AZD1222. A clinical trial revealed the vaccine was up to 90 [...]
Americans cannot truly be safe from the COVID-19 pandemic until the whole world is safe. COVAX announces additional deals to access promising COVID-19 vaccine candidates; plans global rollout starting Q1 [...]
Lawmakers approved a $900 billion pandemic aid bill that provides a $600 payment for most Americans. The final proposal includes $69 billion for the distribution of a coronavirus vaccine and [...]
Johnson & Johnson is testing a coronavirus vaccine known as JNJ-78436735 or Ad26.COV2.S. Results from a clinical trial are expected in January. Janssen Pharmaceutica, a Belgium-based division of Johnson & Johnson, is developing the [...]
The variant is causing mayhem in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe. Yesterday, U.K. prime minister Boris Johnson announced stricter lockdown measures, saying the strain, which goes by the [...]
Officials in Britain and South Africa claim new variants are more easily transmitted. There’s a lot more to the story, scientists say. By Apoorva Mandavilli Source: The New York Times Just [...]
Independent 501.V2 Variant identified by South African researchers (same Spike mutation as UK Variant) South African scientists and health officials announced on Friday the discovery of a new lineage of [...]
U.K.’s Hancock Says New Covid Mutation Is ‘Out of Control’ - Bloomberg Covid-19 Live Updates: Europe Begins Barring U.K. Travelers, Alarmed Over Virus Mutation
Anchors: At 2pm on the 16th December 2020, the COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) consortium presented its first ‘Showcase Event’: SARS-CoV-2 sequencing to inform clinical care, public health interventions and policy [...]
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